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ALL REQUESTS THAT I RECEIVE FROM PERSONS UNKNOWN FOR AN INVITATION TO G-MAIL ARE REPORTED AS *SPAM*.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat

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Part One of A New Two-Part Book by Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan Soon To Be Published

The first part will be entitled פרשת מקץ כאוצר למודי הנקדות.

I am now in editing the first part.

After completing part one, I will go about undertaking the more daunting second part of the book, which will be entitled
פרשת ואתחנן כאוצר למודי הטעמים.

Updated details of publication will be made available.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel

B"H

Encyclopaedia Judaica CD At A Terrific Price

Urim Publishers, a company I have had pleasant business dealings with in the past, is selling the EJ CD for $98.

For particulars:

http://urimpublications.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat

B"H

To All Non-Jewish Visitors To This Blog

I would urge you to take a look at the following links.

http://tinyurl.com/2qwmp

http://tinyurl.com/2nbat

Sometimes the most real, profound and spiritually/morally honest way to honor and love something is to recognize that it is not yours, that you cannot have it, cannot touch it, but only thank God for its existence - from afar.

To Those Who Would Contend That The Essenes Were Vegetarians (Some Of You Have Built Lucrative Businesses Based On This Spurious Contention):

There are many ideologies upon which to base your vegetarianism that will afford you the same income. Please desist from profaning the Holy name of the Isi'im for your own purposes.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat

B"H

It Never Ceases to Amaze Me How Every Distorted Concept of the Essenes Has Caught On, But No One Is Accepting the Truth

Every day in more ways than I can (or care to) imagine, money is being made on bogus claims to "Essenehood", while I can't get people to look at the truth about the Essenes for free.

Please take a look at the following URL:
http://www.treeoflife.nu/contact.html

I wrote the following to them:

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Dear Tree of Life Foundation Representative:

I received a link to this site in the Jewish Vegetarian Newsletter that Richard Schwartz sends out. I subscribe to it because my husband is vegan.

I research linguistic anomalies in the Dead Sea scrolls. So, interested I flipped to your site and was quite astounded by what I saw.

All archaeological evidence proves that the Essenes were not vegetarians. In his book RECLAIMING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, (Orthodox) Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman writes: (that a) "considerable number of bones of edible animals found buried between the buildings in pottery containers...could not have been the remains of sacrifices..."

A photo of the shards of one of the pottery containers appears in the book. The caption reads: "Buried around buildings in the Qumran settlement were various deposits of animal bones, containing the remains of cooks - and apparently eaten - sheep, goats, and cattle."

The Essenes were in no wise vegetarians.

Of course, it is your democratic right to arrive at whatever assumptions you wish and build a society based on spurious claims. However, if you are concerned with historical fact and take pride in integrity and honesty with yourselves, you will desist from claiming any connection to the Essenes.

Thank you for your consideration.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,
Webmaster, ESSENES JEWISH AND REAL
http://www.geocities.com/dordot2001/Essenes_My_Writings.html